Teen Bigha: The government on Tuesday appealed to the Opposition to support the land acquisition bill and help in its passage in Parliament while amendments in the interest of farmers could be taken up later.

Rohtak: Union Minister of State for Labour and Employment Bandaru Dattatreya on Monday said the first National Career Counseling Centre which will provide counseling to jobless people would be set up in Hisar.

New Delhi: Honor, Huawei's smartphone e-brand for digital natives, announced the first flash sale of its flagship smartphone - Honor 4X. The flash sale was held exclusively on an e-retail website, Flipkart on Monday and a day later the company said that the initial batch of units went out of stock in just a minute.

Beijing: Solar Impulse 2, the world's largest solar-powered plane on an historic round-the-world expedition, arrived on Tuesday in China's southwestern Chongqing city, flying over 20 hours at a stretch only on solar power.

New Delhi: "Kai Po Che!" star Sushant Singh Rajput has attributed his success in Bollywood to the new-age filmmaking. The 29-year-old actor, who has also starred in "Shuddh Desi Romance" and Aamir Khan's "PK", has signed on to star in a biopic on Indian cricketer MS Dhoni and Shekhar Kapur's ambitious "Paani" besides the upcoming Dibakar Bannejee's sleuth drama "Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!".

New Delhi: It doesn't really take much to get a Liam Neeson action movie every now and then. Sometimes there are even two or three of those each year. Liam Neeson himself is to blame because he started the trend with 2009's 'Taken' that launched the Luc Besson style cheap but highly profitable genre. While the original film was a breath of fresh air at that time the genre really has become a self-parody of sorts.

Mandalay (Myanmar): Solar Impulse 2 took off from Myanmar's second biggest city of Mandalay early on Monday and headed for China's Chongqing, the fifth flight of a landmark journey to circumnavigate the globe powered solely by the sun.

Varanasi: The world's only 'no-fuel' solar-powered aircraft 'Solar Impulse-2' took off for Myanmar from Varanasi on Thursday after overnight stopover, ending its week-long journey in India as part of the round-the-world trip.